The World Bank on Tuesday kept its forecast for China's economic growth rate for 2017 unchanged at 6.5 percent, saying that the economy will continue sustainable growth as it is rebalancing from manufacturing to services, despite reemerging ...
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The China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a complement to existing international financial system, was formally established Friday in Beijing and expected to start operation early next year. "The AIIB is legally ...
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Haiti’s apparel sector has just got a shot in the arm. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has decided to invest $4 million to help The Willbes Haitian S.A., a subsidiary of South Korea-based ...
Tags: apparel manufacture, IFC, knits, sweaters, woven products, microfibers
The hot consumer electronic market accelerates the sales of power bank. It expands the application scope and quantity of power bank. However, consumers pay more attention to its safety due to the frequent lithium battery accident. To ...
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Kobian has announced the launch of Mercury 3G Mifi Router with inbuilt power bank. Using this mobile Wi-Fi router, users can create instant Wi-Fi hotspot by inserting a 3G SIM card. It will also support connectivity through 3G dongle or LAN ...
Sydney-based Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA) saw three village banks run into operation in Hebei Province, China recently. The three institutions spread in Xinji City and Handan City, each, with small- and medium-sized ...
High-end case goods manufacturer Taracea is expanding its showroom here in the historic Radio Building for the April market. Taracea opened a 5,000-square-foot showroom at the fall High Point Market in the lobby of the former Commercial ...
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In a bid to boost investment and creation of more employment opportunities in the textile sector of the state, the government of Western Indian state of Maharashtra is considering delinking of the state’s textile policy from the ...
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China Development Bank Beijing Branch released that, it took its advantage and dedicated to support the development of vacuum glass to industrialization. At present, the bank had committed to loan 130million and provide extra 77 million ...
Direct Line Group (DLG) has appointed IT consulting firm Capgemini as a partner in a five year contract to design, deliver and run a new IT infrastructure, as it looks to move away from RBS's data centres. The £100m deal, which ...
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Russia's state-owned Rosneft has signed two loan agreements with a group of international banks for a total of $16.8 billion to finance acquisition of BP's 50% stake in Anglo-Russian TNK-BP, the company said Monday. "Pursuant to these ...
IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips "cognitive computers", claiming that they are able to learn ...
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Financial services regulation is an industry in itself with 140,000 pages of regulations published over the last two years, but organisations could streamline the process of meeting regulations by getting IT involved in the process earlier. ...
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Hardly a day goes by without a story about the UK banking community messing up in some way or other. Some of the highest profile stories of the year have been around banks side-stepping regulation and fixing the markets for their own ...
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Name: Jon Brilliant Age: 48 Time with company: board of directors when founded, became CFO 3 years ago. Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and a graduate degree, Juris Doctor, from Duke ...
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